Dentist’s office next to a pie store. Very clever.
Rieteiland House by Hans van Heeswijk
The centre of the building contains a central core that rises the full three storeys of the house. The core contains storage closets, a toilet on every floor, cables and a dumbwaiter. Laundry can be thrown into a tube that carries it down two floors to the washing machine.
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Someone asked me the other day why Men in early Islamic eras and today conceal their women, why “they were treated like nothing, and not given a public voice, not allowed to show themselves, when that was their right. She described something she had seen in a movie about an Arab Bedouin living in a tent and not allowing his wife to come out when there were visitors. She saw this as oppression”
I didn’t even talk about the endless rights of Women in Islam, I just responded with this:
“Men are able to do so much harm to women. They are physically stronger, so they may force themselves upon a female, they can ruin her dignity, everything about her. Yet Islam teaches men to appreciate their women, it makes them understand that women are the heart of the household, and they treasure them so much that they do not wish for others to see them. Think about it. Wouldn’t you want a male to treat you like that, like a precious ornament which is so beautiful to him that he feels it must be hidden? And you’re forgetting that women want to cover, it’s modest, it’s something they do for Allah. In fact if a man did not do this, then he would be considered as someone without manners or etiquette, and you see it today. If anyone’s being treated like an object, it’s those women that feel the need to dress up so that their boyfriends can show them off, and the oppressors are those men who treat them as a sexual object. See the beauty in modesty?”
